For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more.The warrior was, in ...

Viking culture is becoming a big theme in Swedish tourism, and the Viking burial ground where the tomb is has been an attraction since it was discovered in the 1880s.

Viking warrior Sigurd won a brutal battle and took his enemies' heads as trophies. But one of those heads had the last ...

Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. DNA tests show a high-ranking Viking found in a 10th-century grave was a woman.

On an island not far from what's now Stockholm, Sweden, a trading settlement called Birka was established around 750 CE. It's thought to have become the first real urban center in Scandinavia ...

The Althing Festival took place in Gilcrux’s Moorforge Viking site last weekend (July 13 to 15) and welcomed many fans and reenactors for several days of battle, games, archery, and storytelling.

The late 2000s saw a surge of open-world games.Fallout 3 and Fable 2 both came out the same year as Battle for Asgard, but the Viking epic puts its own spin on the genre.For each region you ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more. The warrior was, in ...